amerikai:
brit:
1. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.
2. A group, set, or unit.
The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
3. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
4. A dull or lazy person.
Don't just sit there like a lump.
5. (as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
He's taken his lumps over the years.
6. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
7. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
8. Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
1. To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.
2. To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
3. To hit or strike (a person).